U.S. History
Unit 4 Project: The New Republic (Chapters 11-13)
Unit Theme = Expansion
Time Period = 1800-1860



Unit 4 Project Workspace
Period 3
Directions: This document serves many purposes.

1. Place your name in one of the available spots. We will use this list in class to determine the order of presentations.
2. Record your preliminary project topic.
3. Replace your preliminary topic with a narrowed research question/issue. Let others know precisely what you are researching
4. Replace your research question/issue with a learning objective for your presentation. What specifically do you want your audience to be able to do after [[Unit 4 Project-Period 3#|hearing]] your presentation.
5. List the type of visual aid that you will be using during your presentation.
6. I also need to know the title of your project and the type of higher level thinking you have chosen.

Student Name
Step 1: Preliminary Topic
Step 2: Research Question/Issue
Step 3: Objective(s) for the presentation
Step 4: Add trigger words for higher level thinking tasks
Type of Visual Aid
1 Jimmy Routh
Title: The Temperance Movement: Draft People, Not Beer
Objective: The audience will be able to explain the cause and effect of the
Temperance Movement.
Trigger Word (analysis): ?
Trigger Word (synthesis): ?
PowerPoint
2 Maddy Rice
Title: Education For All: Education in the Early 1800s
Objectives:
1) Summarize three new forms of education.
2) Compare 1800's education to today's education
3) Examine how logical different types of education in the 1800's were.
Trigger Word (analysis): Compare
Trigger Word (synthesis): Examine
Keynote
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7.Adam Preston-de Leon
Title: The Cotton Kingdom: A Place Where Slavery Grows
Objective: To explain how the Cotton Kingdom led to the expansion of slavery.
Trigger Word (analysis): ?
Trigger Word (synthesis): ?
Power Point
8. Maria Palombo
Title:New Opportunities for Women: Making the Difference
Objective: Explain the contributions Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton made during the early expansion of rights for women in1848.
Trigger Word (analysis): ?
Trigger Word (synthesis): ?

9 Lindsey Barnhart
Title: A Different Kind of Revolution: The American Industrial Revolution
Objective: Evaluate the American Industrial revolution, how it started, and what/who was involved.
Trigger Word (analysis): Sequence
Trigger Word (synthesis): Assess

10.Andrew Carragher
Title: The Mexican American War: A War of Expansion
Objective: Explain when some of the more important battles of the Mexican American War where and what happened during them.
Trigger Word (analysis): timeline
Trigger Word (synthesis): ?
Prezi
11 Katie Manning
Title: The Lowell Girls: Labor Expands
Objective: Understand the positive and negative effects of expanding factories with Lowell Girls.
Trigger Word (analysis): Compare
Trigger Word (synthesis): Evaluate
Power Point
12. Michael Backner
Title: American Art and Literature: The Difference of Yesterday
Objective: Compare books and art from the years 1800-1860 to now
Trigger Word (analysis): Compare
Trigger Word (synthesis):
PPT
13 Mario Lagnese
Title: The California Gold Rush: A Day in the Life of a Forty-niner
Objective: To examine the California Gold Rush and analyze the life of a Forty-niner.
Trigger Word (analysis): examine
Trigger Word (synthesis): evaluate
Poster
14 Erin Kozar
Title: A Sudden Change: California's Population Growth
Objective:Explain how "Manifest Destiny" relates to California's changing population
Trigger Word (analysis): ?
Trigger Word (synthesis): ?

15 Jessica Gordon
Title:The Prison Reform: A Criminal's Home
Objective: For the audience to be able to explain the cause and effects of the Prison Reform.
Trigger Word (analysis): ?
Trigger Word (synthesis): ?
PPT
16 Julie Muhl
Title: What is Struggle?: The Great Hunger
Objective:The class will be able to explain the effects of the great hunger on the immigration of Irish to the United States.
Trigger Word (analysis): analysis
Trigger Word (synthesis): explain
powerpoint
17 Marissa Elman
Title: Moving Right Along: The Oregon Trail
Objective:Explain the importance of the Oregon Trail in the 1800s
Trigger Word (analysis): outline
Trigger Word (synthesis): validate

http://prezi.com/xzay2vueavcd/present/?auth_key=kc2eoy9&follow=e7afn_el-qes
Prezi
18 Orion Hoffman
Title: Somos Victoriosos: The Texans declare and recieve independence from Mexico
Objective: To have the class analyze the givin information well enough to be able to awnser some questions.
Trigger Word (analysis): ?
Trigger Word (synthesis): ?

19. Savanna Bell
Title: The Abolition Acts: A Liberator or non- Liberator?
Objective: For the class to understand what the Abolition Acts were and for the class to name two people involved in the Abolition Acts.
Trigger Word (analysis): ?
Trigger Word (synthesis): ?

20 Patrick Kimball
Title:The Underground Railroad... Secret Roads to Freedom
Objective: For my audience to understand what the underground railroad was and how it contributed to the abolitionist movement
Trigger Word (analysis): ?
Trigger Word (synthesis): ?
Power Point
21 Tess Clippinger
Title: Authors and Literature: The Movement Towards New Ideas
Objective: Explain the different kinds of expanding American literature, and list the authors involved in it.
Analysis: Compare
Synthesis: List

22 Monica Martin
Title: From Nationalism to Sectionalism: A Country Divided
Objective: For my peers to evaluate and explai the events in and leading up to Sectionalism.
Trigger Word (analysis): ?
Trigger Word (synthesis): ?

23 Matthew Kelley
Title: Morse Code: Beep Beep Boop Beep
Objectives:
1) Understand that Morse Code provided an alternate way of talking
2) how it changed lives and helped expand the United States.
Trigger Word (analysis): evaluate and explain
Trigger Word (synthesis): examine
Poster
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25 Emily Fleming
Title: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow; a Tale that Never Rests
Objective: Analyze the differences between the Disney movie and the original legend
Trigger Word (analysis): analyze
Trigger Word (synthesis): evaluate
Prezi
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